As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly
appears from the context:
BUSINESS HOURS
Hours between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any business day.
CARTWAY
Portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
CORPORATION
Natural person, partnership, corporation, association or
any other legal entity.
SIDEWALK
Portion of a street between the curblines, or the lateral
lines of a cartway, and the adjacent property lines intended for use
by pedestrians.
STREET or HIGHWAY
The entire width between the boundary lines of a way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public
for purposes of vehicular travel.
Every person in charge or control of any building
or other structure, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or
otherwise, shall remove and clear away, or cause to be removed and
cleared away, any accumulation of snow and ice on said building or
other structure which is liable to fall on any sidewalk, roadway or
other public way. Such work shall be completed within a reasonable
time, but not later than 12 hours after the cessation of any fall
of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited
any snow or ice on or immediately next to a fire hydrant or on any
sidewalk, roadway or loading and unloading area of a public transportation
system, except that snow and ice may be mounded by the Township on
public cartways incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on curbs
incident to the clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
[Amended 11-9-1988 by Ord. No. 133; 11-19-1997 by Ord. No.
178]
For each violation of the provisions of this
article, any person who commits, takes part in or assists in any such
violation shall be liable upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding
to pay a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $1,000 for each
offense, together with the costs of prosecution. Each day or portion
thereof in which a violation exists shall be considered a separate
violation of this article, and each section of this article which
is violated shall be considered a separate violation. In default of
payment of such fine, such person shall be liable to imprisonment
for a period not exceeding 30 days.